Gravitates vs Revolves - What's the difference?
gravitates | revolves |
(gravitate)
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To move under the force of gravity.
* 1712 , Sir , Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books , book II:
(figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
* 1776 , , Wealth of Nations :
* 1923 , , "J.B. Runs Things":
(revolve)
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(label) To orbit a central point.
To turn on an axis.
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(label) To recur in cycles.
(label) To ponder on, to reflect repeatedly upon, to consider all aspects of.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', Bk.2, Ch.6, ''Monk Samson :
As verbs the difference between gravitates and revolves
is that gravitates is while revolves is (revolve).gravitates
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(head)gravitate
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(gravitat)- The?e, who have nature's ?teps with care pur?ued,
That matter is with ac&- 8205;tive force endued,
That all its parts magnetic power exert,
And to each other gravitate , a??ert. - 8205;tive force endued,
- Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
- The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating .
- Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
revolves
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(head)revolve
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- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve . There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.
